From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a59694a441eb7b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-15 05:39:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!newsfeed3.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.196.106.144!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.wideopenwest.com!news.wideopenwest.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:39:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:39:06 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_Gagn=E9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development References: <95db0572.0404142153.431fd058@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <95db0572.0404142153.431fd058@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.76.193.246 X-Trace: sv3-2wTUzyLNdlDe1x7HY25Wga5ZS+WQfQa+K1PVhNUoHDzz+6tFzmpERcf3y7VtR1bIlJW92AFvWX9O7QG!RdldFLqKr3dPwSNhDVMkmh0OK8IE378LLKyEOGr8p73XCJeDeRu+UYa+gLhWEdOh8JbN4mHAGJfX!FxoAzcdES4MbLuClzkzYS1EaRQEPfw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@wideopenwest.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@wideopenwest.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:29755 comp.lang.ada:7135 comp.lang.eiffel:667 comp.object:10635 Date: 2004-04-15T08:39:06-04:00 List-Id: Smalltalk has already been used for building an operating system so you can either use that as a benchmark showing it can be done, or a reason to do it in another language to prove it can be done with it as well. KingIshu wrote: >Hi All, >I am developing an object oriented OS code-named "ikbocs". >1) What are the pros and cons of the following languages interms of >Effectiveness on System Programming, Object Orientedness etc ? >(Simula, Smalltalk, Modula-3, Eiffel, Sather, C++) >I suppose Java is not suitable for Sys. Programming. > >2) Which OOP language would be better for OS development? > >TIA >KingIshu > > -- .tom remove email address' dashes for replies opensource middleware at